My friends and I have been exhausting our current library of games and are looking for suggestions. It tends to be pretty hard for us to all meet at the same time. Usually we prefer to do stuff that we can finish in one session on the weekends because one person might have to leave as another person joins. Don’t mind if its new or old, but id prefer it not to be $60 if its going to be a 2hr stint

Games on our current rotation:

  • Civ VI
  • Deep rock galactic
  • CS:GO
  • War thunder

Don’t really play anymore

  • Apex
  • L4D2
  • Payday 2
  • Gmod
  • Day of infamy
  • Insurgency
  • Project Zomboid
  • Foxhole
  • Risk of rain 2
  • Don’t starve together
  • Verdun
  • Killing floor
  • Minecraft
  • Terraria
  • CosmxTi@beehaw.org
    19·
    2 years ago

    Valheim is good even if you can’t be on at the same time. Just slowly build out a world as you would in Minecraft and save the biome raids for when you can get the party together. It’s flexible.

    • jason@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I opened this thread to see if anyone recommended Valheim, because what you said is exactly what my group does. We’re all dads with jobs and we play when we can, but we schedule 2-3 hour video call sessions to fight the bosses.

      When it comes to Valheim, you need the help, too. Those bosses can be brutal.

    • illegalsmile@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 years ago

      Have to host/rent a server though, unless the host is always on. Love Valheim, but we had a few server issues that forced us to move on

    • MollweideianMassacre@lemmy.one
      2·
      2 years ago

      Seconding Valheim. There’s nothing quite like starting with a simple objective, getting it derailed by a deathsquito or something and now you and your besties are trying to Oceans 11 the stuff you lost out of a hostile biome that you sailed to from across the map.

    • nivenkos
      1·
      2 years ago

      We used to run a server 24/7 - gets expensive though.

      I wish there were a simple way to have a web frontend that launches the server and manages saves, etc. so we wouldn’t need to share AWS access just for launching and stopping the server and making backups.

      • CosmxTi@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yes, I know. The structure of Valheim is similar to Minecraft, in a way that would not be hard to pick up and play if you were already familiar with it. Plus, it’s a great game. So I gave my recommendation :p